Abstract
Brownfield regeneration combines the three pillars of sustainable development like hardly any other field of application: economically, by generating development and employment in often deprived urban areas; environmentally, by remediating environmental hazards of the industrial past and saving previously undeveloped open space; socially, by bringing new life to urban areas, offering new opportunities for the communities and generating pride and identification with neighbourhoods, cities and regions. Thus, brownfield regeneration is a key element of sustainable urban development. Despite this general consensus about the positive impacts of brownfield regeneration on sustainable development, the elements which constitute sustainable brownfield regeneration itself are not so clear: Which requirements do brownfield projects have to meet to be sustainable? Which practices and tools can help to meet these requirements? The European RTD project RESCUE, Regeneration of European Sites in Cities and Urban Environments, for the first time integrates the principles of sustainability into brownfield regeneration, defining criteria for the sustainable regeneration of industrial brownfield sites in Europe. This paper outlines the content, objectives and intermediate results of RESCUE.
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